Poems (Elliott)/War
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War
Let loose the Dogs of War! America Has held in leash too long the hell-hound pack Which foams and frets and trembles to be gone! Our honor stem demands that war shall cease Our own and that of lands across the sea. Now is the time when human brotherhood Shall demonstrate the strength of Unity. Close-bound in the good God's great righteous cause Shall slay the Demon and once more be free. Since we must enter in the Great Conflict Then let us do so with the Spirit which Great Shakespeare recommends, "so bearing it That our opponent may beware" of us, Hide his diminished head, and slink away!